INSIDE Information and U2 tribute band Blood Red Sky are at Fleet Town Football Club on Saturday, June 17. Doors 8pm. Tickets £5 on the door. Proceeds to Leukaemia Research.

BLUES and rock duo, The Hurricanes, are at the Royal Oak, Trinity Churchyard, Guildford, on Thursday, June 15. Details: 01483 566037.

ROCK band Bang! Bang! play the White Lyon in Worplesdon, on Friday, June 16. For details of their new album, Living Among The Dead, visit the website at rockchoir@aol.com, call 01252 734364, or visit www.rockchoir.com

THE Square Bar, 23 Park Street, Camberley, has a live band on Tuesdays (£3 entry), and DJs from Wednesday to Saturday (free entry). Details: 01276 698920.

SOPHISTAFUNK @ Ha Ha Bar, 17 North Street, Guildford, Fridays and Saturdays from 9pm until 1am. Free entry. Featuring the very latest in upfront house and breakbeat with resident Mavo and regular special guests.

DISCO quiz every week on Tuesdays at the Cricketers, Badshot Lea, near Farnham, starting at 8pm. More details on 01252 311246.

ORIGINAL bassist, singer and songwriter Martin Turner’s Wishbone celebrate 35 years of Wishbone Ash by playing the best of the band’s early years at Sutton’s Boom Boom Club at the Sutton United FC ground in Gander Green Lane on Friday, June 16. And tying in with the special re-release of their big-selling 1980s album, Shakespeare Alabama, Diesel Park West revive the era at the venue on Sunday, June 18. Details on 0208 460 4907.

THERE may be no Glastonbury this year, but Aldershot’s West End Centre is organising Glastoshot on Friday, June 23. The venue’s main theatre will be grassed over for the occasion and leading the line-up on the “pyramid stage” is none other than musical madcap John Otway and some special guests. The centre’s gallery will be transformed into a huge tent with an acoustic stage featuring solo performances by the likes of Toby (Meet Me in St Louis), Guns Or Knives, Wob, Tom (Archie & the Instincts) and Frank Turner (Million Dead). And the dance studio will be transformed into a chilled out area with a DJ playing relaxing and calming music. The only thing missing will be the mud! Details on 01252 330040.

LOOKING ahead and this year’s Rudgwick Music Festival will take place on August 19 on the Springbok Estate in Alfold. Further details via the website at www.RMF.org.uk

GUITARIST Richard Durrant returns to Cranleigh Arts Centre on Friday, June 16, with more Music From The Colourdome. There will be music from across the globe, played in both a classical and traditional manner, complete with samples, mixes, live projections and colourscapes. And on Saturday, June 17, the venue welcomes the return of the highly impressive Taka Boom – Chaka Khan’s sister to the uninitiated – and her seven-piece band, Blaze. No stranger to the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, having notched up hits with contemporary dance sounds – she wrote and sang on the most recent Joey Negro hit, Make A Move On Me, which reached number eight on the UK charts - the Chicago-born singer’s heart really lies in R&B and the blues. Her career started with her sister in The Crystalettes and she later sang and recorded with the likes of George Clinton, Sly Stone, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes and even Marc Bolan. Anybody who has seen Taka on her previous visits will know just how good she is – and for anybody who hasn’t, don’t make the mistake of missing her this time. Details on 08456 128128.

HIGHLY inventive Welsh outfit, Hoover The Dog, featuring fiddler John Hymas, Paul Hutchinson on accordion and Tony Harris on guitar and bouzouki, arrive at Claygate’s Ram Folk Club on Friday, June 16. And on Friday, June 23, the club at The Foley Arms in Hare Lane plays host to bubbly Geordie-land based French singer Flossie Malavialle, whose repertoire features material by the likes of The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkle, Allan Taylor, Janis Joplin, the McGarrigle sisters and Edith Piaf. Details from Bob and Maggie Wood on 0208 686 9421.

A DOUBLE helping of blues and R&B is served up at The Three Lions in Farncombe this weekend, with the return of Jackie Lynton on Saturday, June 17, and High Noon doing the honours on Sunday, June 18. And there’s another double dose of good sounds on offer next weekend, courtesy of The Nigel Bagge Band on Saturday, June 24, and Cryin’ Out Loud on Sunday, June 25. More details on 01483 417880.

HARPMEISTER David Raphael’s Band can be seen and heard in all their wonderful blues-based glory at The Grey Horse in Richmond Road, Kingston, on Sunday, June 18. And on Monday, June 19, Mr Raphael can be found at The Three Horseshoes in High Street, Cranleigh, under the guise of Dave & Dave & The Invisible Drummer. Details on 07792 997726.

MIKE Nicholson is a fine singer with a great voice and he returns to Horsham Folk Club at the town’s cricket club in Cricketfield Road on Sunday, June 18. Details from Judith Snelling on 01306 875653.

THE Star pub in Church Street, Godalming, hosts a folk music session to which all singers, musicians and listeners are invited every Monday evening. Details from Kevin Gorton on 01483 415962.

YOUNG Folk Award finalist Jackie Oates, a fine fiddle singer, joins singer, guitarist, cittern and melodeon player Ed Rennie for a date at Dorking’s Chanticleer Folk Club at The Friends Provident Social Club in Pixham Lane on Wednesday, June 21. For further information, telephone Neil McRitchie on 01306 888530.

HARRY Skinner, ex-Producers, leads his fine blues band through a set of self-penned material and blues standards with an original twist at Farnham Maltings’ Boogaloo Blues & Boogie Club on Thursday, June 22. And coming up on Monday, June 26, the club hosts one of its regular dates by The Hamsters, who will be cooking up a ZZ Top and Hendrix special. Details on 01252 793430.

A SINGERS' night has been lined up at Byfleet’s Anchor Folk Club at The Blue Anchor pub in High Road on Thursday, June 22. Call Mike Peach on 01483 476715.

URBAN blues for the new century is how they describe the music of Popa Chubby – aka former Richard Hell & The Voidoids guitarist Ted Horowitz – who promotes his new album, Stealing The Devil’s Guitar, at Sutton’s Boom Boom Club at the Sutton United FC ground in Gander Green Lane on Friday, June 23. Details on 0208 460 4907n APEX Jazz Band repeat their successful open air midsummer concert at Tilford’s Rural Life Centre on Saturday, June 17. Details on 01252 795571.

PANAMA Café Orchestra serve up the weekly helping of trad and classic jazz at The Cricketers in Horsell Birch, near Woking, on Monday, June 19. Details from Dave Lowe on 01483 714121 or from the pub on 01483 762363.

VETERAN tenor sax star Bobby Wellins is joined by pianist and singer Pete Churchill for a Jazz at the Brasserie date at Riverview in Caversham, near Reading, on Tuesday, June 20. Call 0118 947 6451.

THE Vasilis X Quartet provide the music for another Way Out West date at the Ram Jam Club, behind the Grey Horse in Richmond Road, Kingston, on Wednesday, June 21. Featuring saxophonist Vasilis Xenopoulos, pianist Will Bartlet, Will Hyland on double bass and Chris Nickolls on drums, they have made a dynamic entry onto the London jazz scene. Call 0208 549 8709.

RENATO D’Aiello’s Quartet return to Dorking’s Watermill Jazz Club on Thursday, June 22. A contemporary player who has been described as having a “strong Dexter Gordon drive”, he has played with many leading players. He will be joined for the Dorking date by pianist Barry Green, Nicola Muresu on bass and Matt Home on drums. Watermill Jazz is at the Friends Provident Social Club in Pixham Lane, Dorking. Details on 01737 210454.